The Ultimate Diet Formula
I love diets. They are the ultimate self fulfilling prophecy. Once you start following a diet to lose weight, you actually start losing weight! How incredible? Not really! It is just the Hawthorne Effect doing its magic: An attempt was made to measure the difference between two methods of management during the 1930s at the Hawthorne plant. The attempt failed because the workers impoved their efforts immensely for both methods. This was because they knew they were being watched carefuly. Since then, the term Hawthorne effect has been used to...
read more40 More BeFunky Invites!
My blog still gets a lot of visitors who are looking for BeFunky invites. My blog is the first result in Google if you search for Befunky Invites and it is also listed on Mahalo.com at the general BeFunky page there. Today Tekin Tatar emailed me 40 (!) new invitation codes to hand out! If you want one simply send me an email and I will email you one back as soon as I get a chance. Here are 10 invites just to get in the...
read moreWakoopa Tracks iPhone Software!
Wakoopa, a company I own shares in, today announced a new product/service. They now track usage on iPhones too. We all own iPhones at the office and I think it is a smart move to take advantage of the iPhones popularity this way. Here is the official press release: PRESS RELEASE – Amsterdam, October 22 2007 Software startup makes iPhone usage transparent Amsterdam-based company Wakoopa has announced today that it’s tracking worldwide iPhone usage. Since January, Wakoopa has been developing an online social network where software...
read moreSteve Jobs: Design & The Washing Machine
As you might know I have a huge (complete!) collection of Wired Magazines. Regularly I grab a random copy and browse through it. Today I grabbed a 1996 issue with Steve Jobs on the cover. I only read half of the article but was thrilled when I found a quote that made a huge impression on me when I first read it. The last question that Gary Wolf asks is “Is there anything well designed today that inspires you?”. Steve Jobs then tells a very personal story about his ideas about design and how he and his family deals with...
read moreOpenIdea: Give Spammers What They Want….
You have no idea how much I hate spam and spammers. I’m generally a friendly guy but spam makes me aggressive. And with 85% of ALL my mail being spam (19.648 Good Messages, 111.961 Spam Messages (85%) on 405 Spam Messages Per Day) I spent a lot of time thinking about how to prevent any more from coming in. Since January 2007 I have been using a fairly good Spam filter. It is 99.1% correct which means I have to wade my way through hundreds of spam messages every day to make sure I don’t miss stuff. So far I have rescued 869 messages...
read more5 Tips: Efficiently Communicating Your New Contact Data
A few months ago I received a message from someone I once met. He had moved from one company to another and wanted to let me (and the 400 other recipients in the To: field) know his new contact details. I opened the message and included was a 1.2 megabyte JPG with his new contact details, in an image. Can you imagine how inconvenient that is? Ever since then I have been paying special attention to how people communicate their new addresses and have now decided to write a ‘How to’ about the subject. So, are you planning on moving...
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